Japan's party chief asks ministers to be careful about remarks

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TOKYO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of Japan's small ruling New Komeito Party, asked Monday that cabinet ministers should pay attention to their remarks, referring Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso's improper words on constitution revision.

"I would like to ask cabinet ministers to be careful about their remarks," Yamaguchi was quoted by local media as saying at a meeting of party executives from the country's ruling bloc that contains Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and the New Komeito Party.

Yamaguchi also emphasized that the ruling bloc should work hard on managing the government in a humble manner to regain public trust, rather than indulging in the victory of the upper house election, which enabled the ruling bloc to control both the lower house and upper house in the Diet.

Aso, also the country's finance minister, said in a speech on July 29 that Japan needs to imitate Nazi German regime, which changed the Weimar Constitution quietly, to revise the country's current pacifist constitution.

The remark drew international condemnations, which forced the outspoken vice prime minister retract the wrong words on Aug. 1.

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